Pickens, Anna Gwin. Papers 1919-1923

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Pickens, Anna Gwin. Papers 1919-1923

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Anna Gwin Pickens, student. The Anna Gwin Pickens Papers consist of correspondence, University of Chicago handbooks and course books, a passport, notes, photographs, and miscellaneous materials relating to Pickens undergraduate years at the University of Chicago.

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The University of Chicago's Documentary Films Group is the oldest student film society in the United States. It had its beginnings in the early 1930s when a group of students living in the university's International House came together around an interest in the emerging documentary genre. In 1941 the name "Documentary Film Group" was adopted, and the group began showing films in the university's Social Sciences building. Early favorites of Doc Films, as it later came to ...

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Anna Gwin Pickens was born on August 23, 1901 in Mississippi. Pickens entered the University of Chicago in 1919, graduating in 1923 with a Ph.B. As an undergraduate she was active in several campus organizations including: Esoteric, Nu Pi Sigma, Dramatic Club, Portfolio, and the Y.W.C.A. Pickens received an A.M in history from the University of Chicago in 1948. Her A.M. thesis was titled, "The Murray Colonies of Bolivia." From the guide to the Pic...